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Code of Conduct

Our standard

This project exists to make splicing analysis easier to do and easier to check. Everyone taking part — asking a question, reporting a bug, reviewing a change — is expected to keep the discussion about the work.

Expected of participants:

  • Assume competence and good faith. People come to this project from wet-lab biology, bioinformatics and software engineering; a question that is obvious in one of those backgrounds is often not obvious in another.
  • Be specific. "This is wrong" helps nobody; "this classifies a novel donor as annotated when the GTF has overlapping transcripts" can be acted on.
  • Accept that scientific disagreement is normal and welcome. Disagree with the method, the assumption or the code — not with the person.
  • Respect the effort behind a contribution, including the effort behind a contribution you are rejecting.

Not acceptable:

  • Personal attacks, insults or demeaning remarks.
  • Harassment of any kind, in public or in private.
  • Sexualised language or imagery, or unwelcome sexual attention.
  • Publishing others' private information without their explicit permission.
  • Sustained disruption of discussions or reviews.

Scope

This applies in every project space — issues, pull requests, discussions, commit messages and code review — and when representing the project elsewhere.

Reporting

Report unacceptable behaviour to elmasnrylmz@gmail.com. Reports are read by the maintainer and handled confidentially. You will get a response, and you will not be asked to justify why the behaviour bothered you.

Depending on severity, the response may be a private warning, a request for a public apology, removal of the offending content, or a temporary or permanent ban from the project's spaces. The maintainer will not act on a report by retaliating against the reporter.

Attribution

The standards above follow the spirit of the Contributor Covenant, adapted for a small scientific software project.